Women’s Rights in Ancient Times

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If you believe gender equality to be a new creation, you are wrong.

It has existed since ancient times, but not everywhere.

The Berbers, Hebrews, Ancient Egyptians, Sarmatians. Basques and a few Celtic tribes had it right way before wrong turns took place.

Some Scythian-Sarmatian cultures may have given rise to Greek stories of Amazons. Graves of armed females have been found in southern Ukraine and Russia. David Anthony notes, “About 20% of Scythian-Sarmatian ‘warrior graves’ on the lower Don and lower Volga contained females dressed for battle as if they were men, a style that may have inspired the Greek tales about the Amazons.

The Sarmatians differed from the Scythians in their veneration of the god of fire rather than god of nature, and women’s prominent role in warfare, which possibly served as the inspiration for the Amazons.

Women in ancient Egypt had a status that significantly contrasts the status of many modern women because they occupied power in ways that women commonly do not in contemporary societies. Although men and women in Egypt had traditionally distinct powers in society, there was no insurmountable barrier in front of those who wanted to deviate from this pattern. Egyptian society recognized women as equal to men, but as having an essential complementarity, expressed especially in the action of producing children. This respect is expressed clearly in the ancient Egyptian theology and morality. They had the opportunity to rule the country and have the same basic human rights as men.

Not to forget about the Etruscans.

Mesopotamian women in Sumer, the first Mesopotamian culture, had more rights than they did in the later Akkadian, Babylonian and Assyrian cultures. Sumerian women could own property, run businesses along with their husbands, become priestesses, scribes, physicians and act as judges and witnesses in courts.

Here is a compilation of previous posts discovering just how advanced many ancient societies have been and of course…

there is an Rh negative connection…

in ALL of them:

I have never once met an Rh negative man who was “intimidated by strong women”.

Have you?

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